Re: "Pike"
phrase... well, almost

: : : I saw a movie
a little while back and heard a character use a phrase that went "... as a pike"
(a simile, seemingly a colloquialism). I told myself at the time that I wanted
to remember the phrase. But, alas, I cannot remember it!

: : : Could have been
"dead as a pike" ..... not sure. Anyone know it? Or other pike phrases? Thanks.

The
best I can do is "as plain as a pikestaff".

: : "Freedom for the pike means
death to the minnow"--from Partridge's "Dictionary of Catch Phrases." That's the
only phrase I found that uses "pike" in the sense of a fish.

: That's not it,
I'm afraid. Interesting phrase about life's relativism, though. My hubby would
call it a phrase about "the ecology of life", like "his loss was our gain" etc.